Bologna, Italy
July 20-25, 2008

Welcome

It is a great pleasure, for the members of the Conference Organizing Group, to bring to Italy, and precisely to Bologna, the 28th ISME World Conference. SIEM is very proud to host an event of this relevance. The richness of ISME Conferences, that gather so many professionals in the field of music education, is very well known all over the world. Italian music educators, and in particular SIEM members, are very pleased to welcome their colleagues  and share with them the variety of musical cultures, studies and experiences offered by this Conference. Italy is very well known for its musical traditions as well as its artistic heritage and naturalistic places. Bologna will offer to the Conference, in its medieval frame,  a special flavour rich in music and arts.

Welcome to Bologna
The 28th ISME Conference will be an unforgettable event.


Johannella Tafuri, Chair
Conference Organising Group
28th ISME World Conference ISME 2008

Conference Theme

Music at all ages

Music and infants

Music and children

Music and young people

Music and adults

Music and seniors

Submisisons will be welcome from all five of these areas of music education.  The Conference encourages an interdisciplinary approach in order to foster connections across all aspects of education and with other disciplines, including, but not limited to, arts, pedagogy, practice of teaching, psychology, musicology, ethnomusicology, sociology, music theory, philosophy, medicine, and school administration. 

 
Deadline for submissions to the World Conference  was 4th Nov 2007.

ISME Special Interest Groups at World Conference in Bologna, Italy

      - The ISME Young Professionals Focus Group (YPFG) explores ways through which ISME can better serve students and beginning music educators. The group will apply for separate sessions for presentations from this group in Bologna. For more information please visit:  http://www.isme.org/de/membership-information/young-professionals-focus-group.html

      - Instrumental and Vocal Teachers. At the ISME conference in Bologna in July 2008 there is to be a dedicated strand focussing on the teaching of performance. The thrust will encompass all aspects of instrumental and vocal teaching and learning that may take place in the home or school on a one-to-one or small group basis It will be of particular interest to the studio or peripatetic teacher who often works in isolation. For more information please visit: http://www.isme.org/en/special-interest-groups/instrumental-and-vocal-teachers.html